Thank you for hosting Rollo and congrats Scene! 🙏

In this contest it was surprising for me to not vote for Tori Amos, Placebo and UNKLE as I like most of the stuff I've heard from these artists but on this occasion they sadly didn't fit in my votes. I found it slightly difficult to rank this contest but Tori came 14th for me, UNKLE was 12th and Placebo 16th. I'm a big Tori fan and most of her other songs would've gotten points from me. I also was a long-time listener of Placebo although not so much recently as other music has just taken over my life haha. I'm not as familiar with UNKLE overall but have generally liked what I've heard.

Charlotte Martin has really done some beautiful music over the years, she very often gets the Tori comparisons but I think she's a good musician in her own right. Water Breaks Stone is a beautiful, intriguing album, I was also considering entering something from her other albums but '12 Years' just suddenly popped out as an intriguing one to enter and I just went with it.

Just catching up with this!!

Seal doing better than i thought he would 👏!!

Another fun comp.

Apologies for being late to the party, been dealing with a lot of family stuff.

Congrats @Scene !! Such an underrated gem from Christina and glad it went the distance.

Also huge thank you to those who gave my track points, especially @CowTzy and @Cody DiLaurentis for giving the maximum!! Very glad to see an underrated dance masterpiece that does the rounds on my Spotify being given props!

And of course thank you to @King Rollo for hosting!!

Edited October 6Oct 6 by Doug

31st?? My goodness..... Well, it's an acquired taste, I guess 😑

Congratulations @Scene

Not you finally snatching my ex-Pop Factor artist Xtina, and win with it

So happy with Ace Of Base finishing Top 5 <3...in all honesty they've always been a success for me (Happy Nation won PFSC, Top 20 in BJSC Spin Off and Top 5 here), except in Pop Factor but you can all tell by now they're one of my ultimate fave group <3...so thank you everyone!!!

And lastly, thank you @King Rollo for an amazing theme and fabulous job with hosting!!!

Could we see an update to the Bop Idol Stats thread please? There have been two contests since the last one.

If I'm not mistaken, all of us who finished top 5 in the previous contest then finished outside the top 20 in this one!

I will try and get something done later on.

13 hours ago, jimwatts said:

Could we see an update to the Bop Idol Stats thread please? There have been two contests since the last one.

If I'm not mistaken, all of us who finished top 5 in the previous contest then finished outside the top 20 in this one!

Updated the Stats thread, added all the additional entries to the entry list, and added additional data from calculating total points earned by each participant in every contest so far.

Here are some additional bits of Bop Idol info;

Here I present you with the running scoreboard of total points earnt in Bop Idol since its inauguration in 2024;

1 722 jimwatts
2 720 Addy!
3 716 Scene

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4 673 JulianT
5 644 Chez Wombat
6 637 gooddelta
7 544 Tafty
8 538 awardinary
9 524 Roba.
10 518 King Rollo
11 486 Herbs
12 481 Jade
13 470 Dobbo
14 460 Brer
15 460 Mangø
16 394 Cody Buckley
17 386 CowTzy
18 320 AllStarBySmashMouth
19 317 dandy*
20 306 uhsting
21 291 matto
22 285 dhwe
23 268 Lee_J11
24 266 danG
25 260 Lukuzz
26 244 lewistgreen
27 235 vibe
28 215 Wow73
29 209 Josh!
30 208 Viper*
31 206 Jester
32 202 Paddington James
33 200 Doug
34 177 Spiceboy
35 171 RobBot
36 166 nine¾
37 150 DaTilt
38 106 Jaz13music
39 102 Juan Carlos
40 93 WhoOdyssey
41 83 Yobnedor
42 80 Aaron.
43 66 TheSnake
44 62 diva thin muffin
45 61 Iz 🌟
46 59 Ansel
47 59 RabbitFurCoat
48 58 ChrisJK
49 53 Juranamo
50 52 Calum
51 37.52 Jack
52 33 Hugh Janus
53 4 Last Dreamer

In addition, you can now easily check where you finished in any given contest using this table;

#	Participant	Entries To Date	Peak Position	Contest Streak
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	Aaron.	1	6	6
2	Addy!	8	1	8	13	9	1	3	2	11	5
3	Ansel	1	13	13
4	AllStarBySmashMouth	5	6				23	6	9	31	7
5	awardinary	8	4	20	8	19	13	15	13	4	28
6	Brer	8	9	12	20	15	9	24	15	26	9
7	Calum	1	15				15
8	Chez Wombat	8	4	10	6	4	6	4	7	25	18
9	ChrisJK	1	10				10
10	Cody Buckley	8	8	24	11	8	20	18	21	32	11
11	CowTzy	8	8	17	14	18	8	8	22	36	22
12	dandy*	4	2			16	2	17		21
13	danG	3	7		16			7		16
14	DaTilt	3	12						27	33	12
15	dhwe	3	1						1	27	10
16	diva thin muffin	1	12						12
17	Dobbo	7	2		17	2	14	19	31	3	27
18	Doug	2	13							13	21
19	gooddelta	8	1	2	18	5	17	1	6	10	32
20	Herbs	8	10	19	10	11	19	13	18	12	30
21	Hugh Janus	1	23	23
22	Iz 🌟	1	11	11
23	Jack	1	23						23
24	Jade	8	7	21	12	7	16	12	29	15	26
25	Jaz13music	2	19							35	19
26	Jester	4	9	14	9			16	24
27	jimwatts	8	1	1	3	6	5	14	10	2	29
28	Josh!	2	5					5		22
29	Juan Carlos	1	4						4
30	JulianT	8	1	3	4	1	11	22	8	5	25
31	Juranamo	1	17						17
32	King Rollo	6	1		2		12	21	11	1	23
33	Last Dreamer	1	25	25
34	Lee_J11	3	9					9		17	14
35	lewistgreen	3	13	16		13				14
36	Lukuzz	2	2							9	2
37	Mangø	8	1	15	1	17	18	23	19	28	24
38	matto	4	11					11	14	23	17
39	nine¾	3	20						25	29	20
40	Paddington James	3	13						26	24	13
41	RabbitFurCoat	1	34							34
42	Roba.	8	3	7	19	10	3	27	30	18	4
43	RobBot	2	3					10	3
44	Scene	8	1	5	7	14	7	20	5	6	1
45	Spiceboy	2	3							30	3
46	Tafty	8	4	22	5	12	4	26	16	8	15
47	TheSnake	1	9	9
48	uhsting	6	3	18	15	3	22		20		8
49	vibe	4	16				21	25		19	16
50	Viper*	2	6							20	6
51	WhoOdyssey	1	2					2
52	Wow73	3	7						28	7	31
53	Yobnedor	1	4	4